The hydropathic encyclopedia : a system of hydropathy and hygiene in eight parts ..designed as a guide to families and students, and a text-book for physicians . ,that man is by nature in no sense or degree associated, dietetically,with the latter classes of animals. But for the satisfaction of those who desire to see as well as hearthe discussion of this subject, the following ocular demonstration issubmitted: Fig. 152. Fig. 152 exhibits the masticatory or-gans of the carnivorous tiger. Thereis a resemblance between these teethand those of the human animal; yetno one will dispute that the dif
The hydropathic encyclopedia : a system of hydropathy and hygiene in eight parts ..designed as a guide to families and students, and a text-book for physicians . ,that man is by nature in no sense or degree associated, dietetically,with the latter classes of animals. But for the satisfaction of those who desire to see as well as hearthe discussion of this subject, the following ocular demonstration issubmitted: Fig. 152. Fig. 152 exhibits the masticatory or-gans of the carnivorous tiger. Thereis a resemblance between these teethand those of the human animal; yetno one will dispute that the differ-ence is more striking resem-blance. Occasionally the human teeth exhibitthose deviations from the ordinary formwhich are denominated tushes; but such deviations are universally regarded as deformities, and such de-formities always give a carnivorous and ferocious expression to thecountenance. How little do human beings suspect the intimate con-nection that exists between mental impressions and exercises and bodilyconformation. Those tribes of the human family whose minds aremost associated with animal food, and whose teeth are most frequently. 406 DIETETICS. employed in masticating it, are most distinguished for a structure of teeth peculiarly itJiuman. In Fig. 153 wehave a represent-ation of the jnwsand teeth of an-other purely car-nivorous affords a goodidea of the man-ner in which thejaws of the car-nivora open andshut, like a pairof shears, being wholly incapable of the least grinding or rotary motion.
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